Afe Adogame (eds.), The Public Face of African New Religious Movements. Imagining the Religious “Other”

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Rational and Religious Roots of Peaceful Coexistence with the Religious Other

In this article, rational arguments and religious teachings that underlie the necessity of peaceful coexistence with the followers of other religions will be discussed. Moreover, the core impediments to coexistence, such as lacking self-knowledge and being ignorant about the others, will be examined, and practical ways for effectively interacting with the followers of other religions will be su...

Destructiveness as a Disfunction of Religious Identity: A Comment on the Methodology of Research into New Religious Movements

In the article, the problem of new religious movements (NRM) is regarded as a a specific form of modern religiosity, shaped under the influence of the deconstruction of traditional religious normative conventions. The special attention is paid to the identification processes, influenced by NRMs, particularly to such controversial aspects as its destructive potential for the human personality. A...

Constructing “the Other”:ethno-religious Identity in Separatist Movements in Southeast Asia

New Religious Movements and the Study of Folklore: the Russian Case

The present article deals with the question of emergence of new religious movements in contemporary Russia. Although sociological approach to the study of new religious movements proceeds usually from the theories of secularization, the author claims that the appearance of these movements should be viewed also in various contexts of national and historical peculiarities of different cultures. H...